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At the very end of his short life, he marries a strong, earthy woman, who, however, can bear him only a rickety son. Theodore soon dies; his wIfe marries twice more, has eight healthy children, and writes about over- population and immorality. His o]dest brother, a lusty Army lieutenant who never could comprehend all those hours and hours of prayer and penitence, marries, too, fathers six children, and lives "happily to the end of hIS days." Maybe a novel could have sustained Strindberg's moralistic simplifications as he turned finely wrought character analysis and social satire into propa- ganda. But propaganda for what? It is never easy to know what Strindberg wants, for men or for women. He even caricatures a position he himself often takes: Theodore's wife, at last free of her puritan husband, is called by one brother-in-law "a damnable woman who killed her husbands." But she met Theodore only when he was dying, a victim (the author more than implies) of years of self-denial. Death is "the reward of virtue" that the author had in mind Here he wryly goes after those (himself included) who blame women for what a social and cultural tradition demands of young men like Theodore. On the other hand, in many of the stories men are well-intentioned and innocent hut are soon enough manipulated, deceived, teased, or bru- talized b) women, who gain affection only to destroy it-an all too trans- parent effort to further the author's polemics. But most of the stories have considerable merit, for all the stridency and uncertainty. (Strindberg seems to be writing in order to find out what he does believe.) In "Just to Be Married," husband and wife are in a dilemma of neither's making. The first lIne gives her point of view: "There was good reason to say that they literally threw her into his arms." She felt let down and an- gry . Was she a self-respecting person only because she wore a wedding ring, and had a husband? 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